Tal, a 17-year-old French girl forced to move with her family to Jerusalem, despairs at
the seemingly endless tension between Israel and Palestine. She writes an optimistic letter that ends up as a message in a bottle, thrown into the ...
Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl) becomes a conscientious objector when he resists the Nazi call to
arms during World War II. Filmmaker Terrence Malick writes and directs, basing the narrative on the true story of the Austrian farmer. Valerie Pachner and ...
Visually stunning and emotionally gripping, Grigori Chukhrai's poetic masterpiece Ballad of a Soldier has been
given an equally important release from the Criterion Collection. The film's brilliant black-and-white cinematography has been given an excellent digital upgrade, as has the Russian-language ...
With The Mod Squad sweeping the Tuesday night TV ratings in 1968, producers Aaron Spelling
and Danny Thomas hoped to get another multiracial adventure series on the air A.S.A.P. Carter's Army was the 72-minute pilot for this project. Set during ...
A small-town girl (Kristen Stewart) joins the military and ends up becoming a guard at
Guantanamo Bay, where she begins to forge a delicate, transformative bond with an inmate (Payman Maadi) who raises some compelling questions about his incarceration.
Pearl S. Buck's novel China Sky is boiled down to a wartime romantic triangle, courtesy
of commercial-minded RKO. Randolph Scott and Ruth Warrick play American doctors in a remote Chinese village. The relationship is platonic, but Scott's spiteful wife Ellen ...
This double-feature video combines a highly regarded French short subject and a less celebrated but
still worthwhile French-German feature. Based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce, director Robert Enrico's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge details the desperate escape ...
During World War II, the Japanese Navy continues to assert its dominance over the Pacific
ocean by June 1942. In response, the United States deploys a carrier group near Midway on a mission to launch a surprise assault on the ...